Creative Impact is a programme to support children and young people to discover how they can harness their abilities in the arts to achieve sustainable development goals, through creating their own authentic experiences of making change.

We provide consultancy and stakeholder co-design to support arts and education organisations and partnerships to nurture children and young people's ideas, to help young people become leaders, and to develop their social impact.

Good Questions is a social learning platform we have built for creating online tools, workshops and courses where people assess their knowledge, understanding and skills together and learn from each other’s experiences and ideas.

We're currently developing films, 3D visuals and interactives to enable people to chart their learning journeys over time and to take a holistic view of what thousands of individual learning, education and career journeys really look like.

What We Could Be is a programme of talks, training and strategy co-design with students and organisations looking at the future of work and innovative ideas for how young people could harness the arts professionally for tomorrow’s societal challenges, and how best to prepare them now.

“What’s the least we need to do for young people to fulfil their potential in the creative arts?” We're developing the Light Touch Paper programme - an action research community looking at self-directed learning and facilitative, minimally invasive teaching and learning.

Working alongside a growing collaboration of interested music education organisations, we're co-designing a partnership programme and campaign to address issues around welfare and safeguarding in music and arts education

We produced an authoritative online timeline of the history of the sustainable development movement, with perspectives from sustainable development champions from across the globe, for the Richard Sandbrook Trust

Our specialism...

Creative learning journeys

Supporting creativity and creative learning, in policy, strategy and practice, is central to our work.

We help schools, arts organisations, government departments and others to develop creative skills, approaches and environments. We support young people to develop their own creative projects and ideas.

We help organisations build a picture of multiple learning journeys at a macro-level and to react accordingly. And we help public, charitable and commercial organisations to develop their own creative journeys.

Arts and social/environmental impact

We support organisations and collaborations to harness the power of creativity and artistry to make genuine change towards social and environmental challenges.

We help young people to harness the arts to make their own projects towards the UN sustainable development goals. We support cultural organisations to maximise their social and environmental impact. We explore creative and arts-rich ways to tackle systems-level and local-level sustainability challenges.

Harmonious strategy

We help organisations develop and grow strategies where individuals have the freedom to excel in what they can do, within a harmonious framework where individual contributions fit well together towards a common purpose.

Divergent thinking in practice

A key flavour of how we work is to bring a very broad range of disciplines and topics to bear on any given challenge or opportunity. This opens up questions beyond day-to-day working and yields answers from surprising places.

For example, we've brought AI, cybercrime, climate change, international development, blockchain, and human nature into education planning workshops. And we're bringing young people, behavioural scientists and artists together to look at wicked problem-solving.

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What we do...

Support and consultancy

Through creative, bespoke support, we help organisations and communities to develop skills and insights, and to achieve significant impact. More on support and consultancy...

Strategy development

Strategy development

We help cultural and education organisations with strategic development around purpose, vision and values, creative cultures, education and learning, and income generation.

We work with teams and partnerships to co-design symbiotic plans for activity, skills and behaviours development.

musinc

We've been working with musinc on developing the Music and Social Impact toolkit, as well as supporting them with organisational development around social impact.

Arts Council England

We're supporting ACE with evaluating the In Harmony programme, and mapping and strategy for the creative arts in the early years in England.

A New Direction

We consulted, researched and produced for A New Direction a mapping analysis on arts and culture in the early years across London.

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Training and co-design

Training and co-design

We provide training around a broad range of topics, including creative skills, environments and behaviours, agile methods, developing young people's ideas, peer-to-peer learning and young leadership, and supporting progression.

And we run co-design sessions and hacks to address a wide range of challenges and opportunities, bringing diverse teams and imaginations together to forge brilliant ideas and pragmatic plans.

Music and social impact toolkit

'Hitting the spot' is a toolkit, designed for music organisations who want to understand better and to develop the social impact of their music activity and strategy.

musinc

We've been working with musinc on developing the Music and Social Impact toolkit, as well as supporting them with organisational development around social impact.

Royal Opera House Bridge

We ran a Commission for Enquiry on 'Whose Excellence is it anyway' at ROH Bridge's conference, 'The Paths Children Take'

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Research and consultation

Research and consultation

Often the best way to find out what's going on is to ask people, but in the right way.

We run consultative research for evaluations, strategy development audits, and uncovering innovative approaches to creative learning and real-world problem-solving.

We do face-to-face, online consultations and data-based analysis, and prefer to use participatory and creative techniques - giving people's imagination a voice.

Where ideas are growing

Research on early years arts and culture in Yorkshire and the Humber, for CapeUK

Early years arts and culture in England: current practice and future development

We were commissioned by Arts Council England, working alongside Earlyarts, to undertake a consultation and analysis of arts and cultural provision and skills in the early years sector, looking principally at early years settings.

Music and social impact toolkit

'Hitting the spot' is a toolkit, designed for music organisations who want to understand better and to develop the social impact of their music activity and strategy.

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Evaluation

Evaluation

We are very focussed on real impact.

We support the design and delivery of programme evaluations, specialising in creative learning, arts and social impact.

And, through training, talks, and toolkits we help organisations to incorporate evaluation, impact assessment, action research and a clear sense of purpose into what they do and how they work.

Nordicity

We're working with Nordicity on a national evaluation of the In Harmony programme for Arts Council England

Arts Council England

We're supporting ACE with evaluating the In Harmony programme, and mapping and strategy for the creative arts in the early years in England.

Reseo

For over 15 years, RESEO has been the unique European network for education, participation and creative learning in opera and dance.

We contributed to RESEO's conference on evaluation of opera and dance work with children and young people.

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Productions

We create tools, experiences and communications to put across big ideas and make complex scenarios accessible to people who want to change them. More on our publications

Professional tools

Professional tools

We produce online, paper-based and workshop-based toolkits for professional skills development.

Music and social impact toolkit

'Hitting the spot' is a toolkit, designed for music organisations who want to understand better and to develop the social impact of their music activity and strategy.

Youth Music

We're working with Youth Music, as funder and partner, on the Scaling Up Musical Inclusion project.

Good Questions

Good Questions is a social learning platform we have built for creating online tools, workshops and courses where people assess their knowledge, understanding and skills together and learn from each other’s experiences and ideas.

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Dashboards and visualisations

Dashboards and visualisations

We develop innovative ways to explore and represent often complex data sets in highly accessible ways.

We make online data dashboards and maps for making sense of big data. We make posters for a permanent presence on office walls. And we create 3D visualisations to make complexity more manageable, without having to over-simplify it.

Pupil Premium Gap in English Schools

An online map showing Primary and Secondary schools in England, indicating the extent of the gap in performance between students eligible for and not eligible for pupil premium funding ("Pupil Premium Gap").

We consulted, researched and produced for A New Direction a mapping analysis on arts and culture in the early years across London.

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Websites

Websites

We create a wide variety of websites, online platforms and experiences for clients and our own programmes.

Good Questions

Good Questions is a social learning platform we have built for creating online tools, workshops and courses where people assess their knowledge, understanding and skills together and learn from each other’s experiences and ideas.

Timeline of the sustainable development movement

We produced an authoritative online timeline of the history of the sustainable development movement, with perspectives from sustainable development champions from across the globe, for the Richard Sandbrook Trust

Born Creative, Together Creating

An online campaign to help parents support their children's creativity and imagination.

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Talks

Talks

We talk widely on creativity, education, arts and culture, journeys and futures.

Royal Opera House Bridge

We ran a Commission for Enquiry on 'Whose Excellence is it anyway' at ROH Bridge's conference, 'The Paths Children Take'

Artswork

We contributed to Artswork's 2016 conference a session on Arts Education Purpose and the future of jobs.

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Projects and programmes

We develop charitable projects with broad partnerships to bring about significant change where it’s needed and where we can make a difference

Creative Impact is a programme to support children and young people to discover how they can harness their abilities in the arts to achieve sustainable development goals, through creating their own authentic experiences of making change.

What We Could Be is a programme of talks, training and strategy co-design with students and organisations looking at the future of work and innovative ideas for how young people could harness the arts professionally for tomorrow’s societal challenges, and how best to prepare them now.

“What’s the least we need to do for young people to fulfil their potential in the creative arts?” We're developing the Light Touch Paper programme - an action research community looking at self-directed learning and facilitative, minimally invasive teaching and learning.